Blurb
Knife-Edge “Ears” Kenner is the well-known lead guitarist of Dirt Cherry. He sees the woman who makes his heart race and she doesn’t recognize him, doesn’t answer his pick-up lines, doesn’t even look at him. What do you do if you think you meet the woman of your dreams and she acts like she doesn’t hear you?
Lucy Shaanti lives her whole life in silence. Between work, school, volunteering, and overwhelming family obligations that threaten to crush her, she doesn’t need a rock star with an even rockier past.
Will Knife-Edge be able to convince Lucy to risk everything to give them a shot?
Review
In book 8 of the Rock Hard series, the lead guitarist of Dirt Cherry is completely smitten when he sees a beautiful woman in a café. When Knife-Edge makes his move, she ignores him, in front of his amused buddies no less. Then he realizes she’s deaf, so he has to change his game plan to win her over.
Even though Lucy is deaf, she hasn’t let that stop her from living her life. As much as she likes Knife-Edge, she’s surprised by his attention, and with an arranged marriage in her future, she knows she can’t have anything real with the hottie musician. Or so she thinks.
My biggest reason for wanting to read this story was for Lucy. It’s not often when I find books with characters who have disabilities, so I was interested to see how a hearing and non-hearing person could make their relationship work, especially since his life revolves around music. Ms. Roberts must’ve done an extreme amount of research to properly show and give respect to ASL and those who use it.
As much as I liked the sweetness and later the spiciness of Knife-Edge and Lucy’s relationship, I ran into a few issues. Since I haven’t read the previous books in the series, I couldn’t keep track of who everyone was. Dirt Cherry has a lot of members, most with unusual band names, and some of them have significant others, so I had trouble keeping this extended cast of secondary characters straight. I’m sure long-time readers of the series wouldn’t have this problem.
Ms. Roberts’s writing style flowed well, though there were some minor typos, and I found the lack of chapter headings odd. Still, there wasn’t any head-hopping, so that’s always a relief.
Overall, readers of rock-star romances should give this book a try. There’s a lovesick bad-boy rocker who’s ready to change his ways for the right girl. What more do you want than that?
4 Stars
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